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Game Winning Assist (329)

Game Winning Assist!

Heading towards Lavaridge, Ash & Co. find a meadow of Numel. May, eager to train her recently caught Skitty, challenges a Numel to a battle and teaches her Skitty Assist. However Team Rocket arrive to capture the Numel. Will they succeed?

I'm still watching the episode, but they got the Trainer's Choice wrong. Combusken=Best choice for Kirlia? I think not! Gravellar and Togetic were both better choices, seeing as Combusken is part Fighting!

I am not worried, Harry. I am with you.

^This is my new fanfic. It's a work in progress, so please read and comment at your discretion. I hope you like it. I think you will.

Whee, "Game Winning Assist" just finished airing. Pretty standard filler but it got plus points for May being the hero (or is that heroine) this time instead of Ash, as well as Skitty's Assist attack. Thank goodness AG doesn't make Ash the only useful character on the show like Johto did. I would have prefered to see Skitty Vs. Ash's Pikachu, but the Furret battle was alright.

Nice to see May taking some initative in wanting to battle for Skitty's sake. Would have liked to see May vs Ash like was planned but May vs the former co-ordinator Julie was cool to since she ended up teaching May a few things.

Skitty's Assist attack randomly cool but a little cheap on the animation. So it used Ember, Silver Wind, and Gust? I'd like to see it use Stringshot hehe!

Team Rocket? Stupid as usual. Wish they'd stop rehashing their old plans/techniques. Also the writers really need to stop bringing up James' rich past at their convenience. I'm SO sure he used to have all of these foreign POKéMON as a kid. -_-

+ 1 for 4Kids not reversing the frames during that Julie girls truck scenes.
+ 1 for Max showing some worry for May.

3 / 5

Not the best, not the worst, but definetely not bad at all. It was a nice clean episode just not a standout.

Also, the first stupid Trainer's Choice in awhile. Unless they meant who is the best for Kirlia to battle? Then it would be right lol

Skitty's Assist attack randomly cool but a little cheap on the animation. So it used Ember, Silver Wind, and Gust? I'd like to see it use Stringshot hehe!

All in due time!

-I'll get rid of this quick. Yeah, they screwed up the Trainer's Choice. I was hoping that they had wised up and would've gone with Togetic (High Sp.Def) but I guess not. Usually I'm okay with these, but I think this was just a real brain fart. If they had said Worst Choice, then it works out nicely.

Numel's voice was very good. It keeps the Numel-Camerupt line's trait of repeating a certain syllable of their name ("Num-num-num" ; "Rupt-rupt-rupt") which was nice. Sounds like they used the Dragonite voice for it.

The Episode itself was above average. I'm glad they had some Key Game locations pointed out (Firey Path, Mt. Chimney which will play a bigger part in the next Episode, the Gondola Station).

And yet again we see Slugma and its 1001 Voice. Today it was Magcargo!

ALSO, I chuckle worthy quote.

"James: Hey, did someone turn up the heat?
Meowth: It IS a bit toasy...
Jessie: Well, it wasn't me..."

I liked this episode b/c Skitty used Assist for the first time. Also Numel seemed to be a little big on the episode, its 2'4" and it was almost as tall as May. It was a good episode. And I really didnt like the Trainers Choice thing with Kirlia, and Combusken.

This episode was ok, to be quite honest I found it pretty boring, but that's probably just because it's so early. 4Kids really needs to get their act together. Now I'll admit I've never seen the original in this case, but I could just tell that there were some parts where the music should have been exciting but it was just the same old background music. I was beginning to think the entire ep was going to be like that untill they finally had some Kanto battle music there towards the end. Anyway, as for the actual episode, it was pretty good to see May being the hero. The Numel were pretty cool and it was nice to see May using Skitty for a battle. Did anyone else think the way Mt Chimney was drawn was exaggerated? No volcano would be that steep. So overall this was a pretty good episode. Not the best I've seen, but pretty good.

Tell me. Is any one else tired of the stupid TR Mechs? *Crush pathetic Mech with a Gundum*

Considering they were going to be carrying Fire Pokemon, don't you think it would have made sense to use heat resistant metal? Chalk another one up for Team Rocket's gross stupity.

So May saved the day wait, the Numule saved the day er night, but she got them started. Whatever, Ash didn't save the day because he was struck in an old beater. *Passes out from self-induced confusion*

I'll say this many times in the future but there is nothing but fluff in Skitty's head. Can it get anymore scatter brained?

Some people don't think it's funny that Exit 69 gets off on Big Beaver.

SKITTY! *huggles Skitty* So kawaii!-^_^- And what's a Skitty without its signature move? Not a very powerful Skitty, that's what! Numel's voice wasn't bad; and once again I mess up the pronunciation of another Pokémon's name!>_<; I picked Togetic for the Trainer's Choice too; but later I realized that Kirlia's low defense and Togetic's low Attack cancel each other out, while an attack like Combusken's Slash can easily wipe Kirlia out without getting hit by a Psychic attack. Overall; 8/10

I picked Togetic for the Trainer's Choice too; but later I realized that Kirlia's low defense and Togetic's low Attack cancel each other out, while an attack like Combusken's Slash can easily wipe Kirlia out without getting hit by a Psychic attack.

That still doesn't explain why they wouldn't have gone with Graveler then, if High Attack was the key. Look, it was just a goof up, no way getting around it.

yawn... stupid KIDSWB what's the big idea airing it at 7... (PST) yawn... and WTF? Fire/Fighting is better than Psychic? I don't think so. None of them were good choices, but Normal has a natural resistance against Psychic(Togetic) and Graveler's high defense/sp. defense will protect it better from Kirlia, but Combusken is best choice against Kirlia? And what's with the "Who's that PKMN (Growlithe)" showing up right after the 'Okay trainers which of these pokemon is the best choice against ...' thing?

yawn... stupid KIDSWB what's the big idea airing it at 7... (PST) yawn... and WTF? Fire/Fighting is better than Psychic? I don't think so. None of them were good choices, but Normal has a natural resistance against Psychic(Togetic) and Graveler's high defense/sp. defense will protect it better from Kirlia, but Combusken is best choice against Kirlia? And what's with the "Who's that PKMN (Growlithe)" showing up right after the 'Okay trainers which of these pokemon is the best choice against ...' thing?

Hey dumb-dumb, Normal doesn't resist Psychic, Graveler has horrid Special Defense, and the WTP is back at the command of KidsWB, so deal with it.

EDIT: By the way EK, that's still a big stretch to pull all from one attack. You've got a ton of other Psychic attacks on Kirlia as well, so I don't fully believe Magical Leaf could cause such a drastic alteration. If you want my opinion, that, plus the opening sequence (where Combusken manages to overpower a Gardevoir) is what could have lulled 4Kids into their mistake, but not simply ML alone.

Hmm, this episode was pretty good for a filler basically, but it did have a lot of things that did...confuse me a little bit.

The 1st thing I noticed was when James was talking about the Numel, he said that when he was a kid, he had them to keep him warm at night. But wait? How could he have had them a long time ago, when they were just recently known? Strange... The 2nd thing that I think the messed up on was when they got woken up by the Numel Mech, and were chasing it. Wasn't it like...2 am or something, since they were sleeping? But at the end when the Numel ran to eat the berry, Julie said that it was dinner time. Strange again... And, I don't know if this is me or anything, but after the pas few new episodes, they have been showing the really old "Who's That Pokemon?" scenes. This episodes was Growlithe. I wonder if that's a mistake on the Episode makings part, or they are including that in now. Yet another strange thing again...

But overall, I would rate this episode an 8/10 because it was halfway decent, but just way too early in the morning. @_@

Hmm, this episode was pretty good for a filler basically, but it did have a lot of things that did...confuse me a little bit.

The 1st thing I noticed was when James was talking about the Numel, he said that when he was a kid, he had them to keep him warm at night. But wait? How could he have had them a long time ago, when they were just recently known? Strange...

about that...

the anime has a strange way of introducing pokemon from a new generation, a few episodes back, they would be like they never existed in the first place, then bam, once the new generation has been introduced it would be like the characters knew about them the whole time. Even though at some points they'd mention that there should only be a certain number of known pokemon in the world... it is a little strange though :\, it is a bit understandable if these new pokemon were to come from a forgien land though. Since James' family were rich, they could import pokemon from forgein lands and such

the anime has a strange way of introducing pokemon from a new generation, a few episodes back, they would be like they never existed in the first place, then bam, once the new generation has been introduced it would be like the characters knew about them the whole time. Even though at some points they'd mention that there should only be a certain number of known pokemon in the world... it is a little strange though

Well, in the first season there were several mentions that there were 150 known Pokemon. However, that was likely because at the time they didn't know the series would go on. Once it became clear there would be more new Pokemon, the series has ever since then been careful to avoid any references to how many specific Pokemon there are, and will usually show any "new" Pokemon as being one that was known to all or some before the series even began.

Indeed Spoiler:

the initial events in the seventh movie with Deoxys and Rayquaza likely occur some time before Ash even began his journey, something like four years if I recall right.

I was playing Ruby the day before the episode premiered, and a Skitty I fought used Assist. That may have been the first time I'd ever seen the attack in the game. I guessed the effect right (everyone else already knew this)

Hmm, this episode was pretty good for a filler basically, but it did have a lot of things that did...confuse me a little bit.

The 1st thing I noticed was when James was talking about the Numel, he said that when he was a kid, he had them to keep him warm at night. But wait? How could he have had them a long time ago, when they were just recently known?

Since when were Numel just recently known? Just because they're new pokemon in the games doesn't mean they weren't always there in the show.